The morning session in the RT&ES Forum: Extending
TOGAF with High Assurance Issues Workshop was facilitated by Ed Roberts
of Elparazim. Ed is a consultant, teacher, and developer of
architecture and software for various clients including the US
Department of Defense.
This
session was a combination of a presentation of the overall discussion of
TOGAF and its use within the RT&ES community to support an
architectural process for the Forum.
Specifically,
requested changes to TOGAF that would allow TOGAF to be easily tailored
for use in our industry, were presented to the Forum. The main thrust of
the workshop was to gather consensus on what things in TOGAF needed to
be extended to make the use of TOGAF a reality in the RT&ES world.
Ed
Roberts presented the RT&ES
perspective.
There were,
throughout the session, lively discussions with valuable participation
from Judith Jones, from the Architecture Forum, John Rushby, Carolyn
Boettcher, and Edwin Lee from the RT&ES Forum.
Ed Roberts captured some of the RT&ES mission-critical
requirements for input as the Forum progresses this work.
Edwin
Lee captured some of the discussions in a short
presentation, which began to form the basis of an RT&ES
Reference Framework.
Edwin Lee is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer and a Certified
Enterprise Architect at Raytheon, also an Open Group Certified Architect
and a member of AOGEA. Edwin
has been an Engineer for over 20 years working on RT&ES, Software
and Digital Electronics development, DoD Architecture including the
deployment of Open Systems, and Mission-Critical SOA for Net-Centric
Operations. Edwin is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the RT&ES
Forum at The Open Group.
